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day activities in which he
engaged, the dominance of the drug in his life, his involvement with crime, and the effects
of the drug on his body and mind, were all thought to be continuous with the junkie's.
Although today many would recognize this typification as bizarre and anachronistic,
there will be strong disagreement on even the bold outlines of a contemporary portrait of
the marijuana smoker. How, then, can we characterize the potsmoker? What is distinctive
about him? We could have our choice of various cliches. The most popular is that he
conforms to the current stereotype of the hippie. He is unkempt, unemployed, politically
radical (often apathetic), slightly mad, sexually promiscuous, and under the influence of
the drug all of the time. Fading under the impact of mass media reports,3 this image is
gradually being replaced by one almost as absurd: the marijuana user is no different from
the rest of us. There are the over-forty users, just as there are those under fifteen; there are
bankers, executives and physicians, just as there are juvenile delinquents, hippies and
criminals. There is the girl next door, and the girl "in the life." There are policemen and
political demonstrators, clergymen and atheists, congressmen and the politically
disaffected. In short, he could be anyone.4 No one has ever studied a cross-section of
marijuana users, of course, and it is not possible at the moment. Yet, in the absence of
such definitive data, it is possible, from dozens of scattered surveys, to construct
something like a reasonably accurate picture of what the social characteristics of a large
proportion of users are likely to be.
Age
The marijuana user is more likely to be young than old. He is most likely to be in his
late teens and early twenties; before, say, age thirteen, and after age thirty, the drop-off in
the percentage who have ever used is sharp. Since very young users are extremely
conspicuous, and since the fears of the older generation concerning the dangers of drug
use are compounded when grade school children are involved, the opinion that use
typically reaches down into the ten to thirteen age range has become widespread.5
Actually, the average age for smoking marijuana is probably dropping, but it is far from
typical for grade school children to smoke. In fact, the average high school or even college
student has not tried marijuana, although in both milieu it is common among a big
minority; however, in some schools, such as some in New York and California, a majority
of high school students have tried marijuana. Moreover, among the very young,
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experimentation will be far more common than is true with older teenagers and young
adults; frequent, daily use among early teenagers is extremely rare. In my survey, I
interviewed an eight-year-old who smoked marijuana, but this does not mean that use
among eight-year-olds, even in Ne
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